Overview of the events of 1928 in Canadian football
Years in Canadian football |
- ← 1925
- 1926
- 1927
- 1928
- 1929
- 1930
- 1931 →
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1928 in sports |
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- Air sports
- American football
- Aquatic sports
- Association football
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Canadian football
- Chess
- Climbing
- Combat sports
- Cricket
- Cycling
- Dance sports
- Darts
- Equestrianism
- Esports
- Field hockey
- Flying disc
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Handball
- Ice hockey
- Ice sports
- Korfball
- Lumberjack sports
- Mind sports
- Modern pentathlon
- Motorsport
- Orienteering
- Paralympic sports
- Precision sports
- Racquetball
- Roller sports
- Sailing
- Skiing
- Speedway
- Rugby league
- Rugby union
- Snooker
- Strength sports
- Squash
- Table tennis
- Tennis
- Triathlon
- Volleyball
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The Tri-City Rugby Football League was formed on August 25 and consisted of Moose Jaw, Regina and two teams from Winnipeg. The league played an unbalanced schedule. Provincial champions for the MRFU and SRFU were determined by head-to-head games of provincial rivals in the Tri-City League. The Union disbanded the following year because of travel expenses. Saskatchewan and Manitoba reverted to playing games within their respective provinces.
First radio play-by-play broadcast of a Grey Cup Game was on December 1.
Jack Hamilton served as president of the Western Interprovincial Football Union for the season.[1]
Regular season
Final regular season standings
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points
Interprovincial Rugby Football Union Team | GP | W | L | T | PF | PA | Pts | Hamilton Tigers | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 22 | 12 | Montreal AAA | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 62 | 34 | 6 | Toronto Argonauts | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 30 | 45 | 3 | Ottawa Senators | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 103 | 3 | | Ontario Rugby Football Union[2] Team | GP | W | L | T | PF | PA | Pts | Group No. 1 | Sarnia Imperials | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 28 | 4 | Toronto Varsity Orfuns | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 30 | 4 | Kitchener Panthers | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 28 | 4 | Group No. 2 | Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 103 | 6 | 8 | Camp Borden | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 46 | 4 | Hamilton Tiger Cubs | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 114 | 0 | | |
*Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs
Alberta Rugby Football Union Team | GP | W | L | T | PF | PA | Pts |
Edmonton Eskimos | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 26 | 6 |
University of Alberta Polar Bears | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 36 | 4 |
Calgary Tigers | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 45 | 2 |
League Champions
Grey Cup playoffs
Note: All dates in 1928
Date | Away | Home | October 27 | University of Manitoba 6 | University of Alberta Polar Bears 20 | November 21 | University of Alberta Polar Bears 20 | University of British Columbia Varsity 11 | November 24 | University of Alberta Polar Bears 13 | University of British Columbia Varsity 6 | |
- University of Alberta Polar Bears win series.
ORFU semifinals
- Varsity advances to the ORFU Final.
ORFU tie-breaker
- Sarnia advances to the ORFU Final.
ORFU final
- Varsity advances to the East Final.
East final
Date | Away | Home | November 24 | Toronto Varsity Orfuns 5 | Hamilton Tigers 28 | |
- Hamilton advanced to the East Final game due to McGill declining to participate.[4]
Western final
- Regina advances to the Grey Cup game due to the Alberta and BC champions declining to participate due to the length of their seasons.
Playoff bracket
| Quarterfinals | | | Semifinals | | | Grey Cup final | |
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| IRFU | Hamilton Tigers | | | | |
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| CIRFU | McGill University | Forfeit | |
| | IRFU | Hamilton Tigers | 28 | |
| EAST | |
| | | ORFU | Toronto Varsity Orfuns | 6 | |
| ORFU | Toronto Varsity Orfuns | 6 | |
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| ORFU | Sarnia Imperials | 0 | |
| | IRFU | Hamilton Tigers | 30 | |
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| | | SRFU | Regina Roughriders | 0 | |
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| | Tri City | Regina Roughriders | 12 | |
| WEST | |
| | | Tri City | Winnipeg St.John's | 1 | |
| ARFU | Edmonton Eskimos | no game | |
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| BCRFU | UBC | no game | |
Grey Cup Championship
References
- ^ Ferguson, Bob (2005). Who's Who in Canadian Sport, Volume 4. Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd. p. 184. ISBN 1-55041-855-6.
- ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0m8uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p9kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4933%2C2698104 Ottawa Citizen - November 13, 1928
- ^ "Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
- ^ "Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
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